(Xinhua via NewsEdge) SingTel, Asia's leading communications group, announced that it has entered into an alliance with US-based Globe Wireless to resell SingTel's service to maritime customers.
'We are delighted to work with Globe Wireless,' Titus Yong, SingTel's head of satellite, said in a statement issued by the company.
'Through SingTel's powerful integrated fixed and mobile satellite applications, Globe Wireless has found an experienced and reliable satellite operator in us who will supply airtime to run its suite of communications solutions,' he added.
The collaboration will enhance SingTel's offering of communications services to its maritime customers and the industry as it will also tap Globe Wireless' extensive suite of communications solutions, including messaging, data, voice, and IT applications, the statement said.
Globe Wireless, based in Florida, the United States, has a customer base of more than 400 ship operators with a total fleet of over 5,500 ships, according to the statement.
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